Criminal Justice News

Monday, August 06, 2012

Four North Alabama Men Convicted in Marijuana Trafficking Conspiracy

BIRMINGHAM—A federal jury today
convicted four North Alabama men in a conspiracy to traffic marijuana,
announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick
J. Maley, and Madison-Morgan County High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task
Force Commander Dewayne McCarver.

Following an eight-day trial before U.S.
District Judge Karon O. Bowdre, the jury convicted Kingy Ossarius Holden, 34,
of Toney; Myron Dewayne Tibbs, 34; Michael Arnez “Little Mike” Brown, 32; and
William Demetro “Little Will” Holden, 24, all of Huntsville, for conspiring to
operate the drug-distribution ring based in Madison County. From 2006 to 2011,
the drug ring distributed more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana, evidence at
trial showed.

The jury also convicted Holden on four
counts of distributing marijuana and one count of being a convicted felon in
possession of a firearm.

Evidence in the case included
conversations from federal wire taps which were conducted between July 2011 and
September 2011. The wiretaps intercepted calls among all the defendants in
which they discussed the drug trafficking operation. During the course of the
wiretap investigation, law enforcement seized about $250,000 in proceeds of the
illegal marijuana-distribution ring.

Along with the four men convicted today,
eight other defendants in the case pled guilty before trial. Those defendants
and their charges are as follows:

■Ivan Fletcher, 36, of Toney: convicted
felon in possession of a firearm, possession with intent to distribute cocaine,
and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.

■Roy Christian Lee, 44, of Huntsville:
conspiracy to distribute marijuana and cocaine, possessing a firearm in
furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, and possession with intent to distribute
cocaine.

■Cedrick Ramon “Ced” or “Big Ced”
Carroll, 33, of Tuscumbia: conspiracy to distribute cocaine, possession with
intent to distribute powder and crack cocaine, and possessing a firearm in
furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.